Please note that I have updated this post, adding links discovered since first posting it.

In my post on the complicity of Democratic officials in vote fraud, I addressed problems in just one state. As I began work on a larger post, exploring how such chicanery could help Obama steal the election, I realized I had such a wealth of information, it would be easier simply to list the stories state by state, providing links to the relevant articles.

You’ll note that most sources are local papers and news stations or blogs, few are national media or the leading dailies.Â That is, while local media and blogs are covering this, the national media is downplaying it or downright ignoring it.

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Just saw a “opinion” piece over at the Guardian.uk where some asshat is blaming Republicans for lying about all these instances. He claims the only reason these stories come to light is because the vigilant ACORN makes it public.

Oh and some of his sources are the sub-fecal BradBlog and MediaMoronsWhoDon’tMatter.

[...] The Gay Patriot has a state by state breakdown of the ACORN voter fraud. It’s almost as big as Wal-Mart anyway. You’ve got a 7 year old registered in Connecticut, 30,000 felons registered in Florida, not to mention that 66% of those registered in Florida by ACORN are already registered. In Indiana, the first 2,100 out of 5,000 registrations turned in by ACORN were found to be bogus. And do we need to go over the Dallas Cowboys being registered to vote in Nevada? [...]

Dan, while it’s important to document what ACORN is doing to enable voter fraud for Obama, here in Michigan, ACORN was also instrumental in the mortgage meltdown mess.

For 3.5 years ACORN-Detroit and ACORN-Flint were teaching people how to use the courts to thwart foreclosure proceedings, pressing law enforcement officials to resist serving foreclosure notices, working with state legislators to waive passed-due property taxes for homeowners and holding public forums to teach people how to protect other assets in debtor/collection lawsuits and use the CRA, HUD, MSHDA and FHA to secure added financing.

Meanwhile, at most of those public forums, ACORN was requiring attendees to provide name, addresses, phone numbers, past residential addresses, etc to register for the event(s). When you registered for the event, you got a nice tote bag filled with goodies including cigarettes, coupons for free Pepsi products, toys for kids, coupons for McDonalds, etc. Hard not to register and give up the information when ACORN is giving away goody bags.

In essence, ACORN is building a database in which to gather key information relevant to commit widespread voter fraud and the people registering to learn how to avoid foreclosure didn’t even know it.

In senior apt communities, where they are few -if any- homeowners, ACORN works with the apt staff to gather seniors together with their absentee ballots and actually helps “instruct” them how to fill out ballots and then carries them to the local clerk’s office. All under the guise of helping homeowners become “mortgage savy” while HUD helps finance these community advocacy group outreach efforts. ACORN has argued that it’s ok to spend HUD monies this way because if a renter’s landlord goes into foreclosure, the renter loses his/her home.

BTW, as someone who’s worked on Voter Integrity Programs in the past, I can tell you that vote fraud is real and it is the best-kept secret by MSM today. I’ve literally watched and filed hundreds of complaints on Detroit residents voting 3-4 times on a single election day, Democrat clerk staff and volunteers coaching feeble voters how to cast the correct, pro-Democrat vote and watched ACORN volunteers sign-up Obama rally participants to use that data to enable further voter fraud.

Out of the 620 precincts in Detroit, Voter Integrity Program volunteers can cover about 35 precincts on Election Day –leaving 95% open to gross abuse and all of the absentee ballots unchallenged.

It’s incredible. And only exceeded by ACORN’s role in the mortgage meltdown mess –and how information from both programs are cross pollinating corruption. I guess it’s the change we’ve been waiting for?

Where are the federal prosecutors? Everyone who wants to vote and can legally vote, should be able to vote. What ACORN is doing should not be allowed. Democrats even cry foul when a voter is asked to provide a photo ID.

[...] prosecute this entity and all involved.(A helpful compilation ofÂ ACORNâ€™s suspect activitiesÂ is here.) Put simply, Obama worked for and helped funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to a [...]

[...] prosecute this entity and all involved.(A helpful compilation ofÂ ACORNâ€™s suspect activitiesÂ is here.) Put simply, Obama worked for and helped funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to a [...]

The only time dead people have ever voted Republican is when Sideshow Bob ran for mayor on “The Simpsons.” Actual dead people are a solidly Democrat voting bloc. Have you ever seen a Republican campaign in a cemetery?

It’s fun to watch as Republicans lay the groundwork for their post-trouncing rationalizations. Obama won becasue of election fraud. Uh huh. And is polling fraud to blame for his double digit national lead?

Itâ€™s fun to watch as Republicans lay the groundwork for their post-trouncing rationalizations.

Jim, you can go ahead and use that excuse as long as you are willing to state publicly that both you and Barack Obama support groups deliberately making and submitting false and invalid voter registrations and that doing so is not a crime.

Make it clear that you see nothing wrong with knowingly producing and submitting a false voter registration and that it should not be a crime.

Money quotes:
“(It’s important to note that in many of the recent ACORN cases that have gotten the most attention it’s ACORN itself that has turned the people in who did the fake registrations.) ”

“But here’s the key. This is fraud against ACORN. They end up paying people for registering more people then they actually signed up. If you register me three times to vote, the registrar will see two new registrations of an already registered person and the ones won’t count. If I successfully register Mickey Mouse to vote, on election day, Mickey Mouse will still be a cartoon character who cannot go to the local voting station and vote”

Also please note, that if someone fills out a registration card even if it is fake ACORN BY LAW must submit it.

If you register me three times to vote, the registrar will see two new registrations of an already registered person and the ones wonâ€™t count.

Not if, as ACORN does, you do it in three different precincts.

Then on Election Day, you simply take your three registration cards, go to three different precincts, and cast your vote three times, signing your name three times.

No one knows if you’re who you say you are, since Democrats oppose requiring ID to be shown at the polls. No one can prove you voted three times, since precincts don’t record photographic evidence. Furthermore, even if you were caught, they can’t invalidate your ballot, since they don’t know which one it is.

Furthermore, given that voter registration fraud is already a crime and ACORN still commits it en masse without worry of punishment, Marshall’s desperate argument that criminals who will already commit registration fraud won’t commit voter fraud because of the punishment doesn’t make any sense.

Too reinforce ND30′s point, there is a telling absence of ACORN registrations here in Arizona where you actually have to prove your identity to vote. I’d be interested to see if that same trend is evident in other places that require ID.

Notice how the “expert” that gillie quoted believes that requiring people to prove their identity before being allowed to vote is “onerous” — despite the fact that, to receive Social Security or welfare, drive a car, cash a check, purchase cigarettes or liquor, and hold a job, one has to provide identification.

Why can ACORN “hire” all of these people that they hire, given that ACORN and its goons argue that none of their people have identification and that it’s too much of a hassle to get it?

Furthermore, this so-called “expert” argues hilariously that the penalty for fraudulent voting will stop people from doing so — despite the proof that the penalty for fraudulent registration does nothing of the sort.

Finally, we now know why Democrats demand a paper copy of every ballot be given to their person; they collect it outside the polling places to make sure their fraudulent voting operatives voted correctly.

In Nevada, it was ACORN themselves who told the board that they suspected some were fraudulent

LOL….that was what ACORN claimed. But then again, ACORN also claimed that the entire Dallas Cowboys starting lineup had moved to Nevada and wanted to register to vote.

Why not condemn ACORN’s criminal activity, gillie, instead of making excuses for them? Is it because you know Barack Obama trained and taught these people? Is it because there is video of Barack Obama supporting and endorsing this group and its tactics? Why are you incapable of admitting that voter fraud is a crime, and that voter registration fraud as committed on a grand scale by ACORN and its supporters like Barack Obama is a crime?

Finally, here’s the hilarious part: gillie and his fellow liberal Democrats insist that CEOs be held personally accountable for anything bad that happens at their company, but insist that ACORN never under any circumstances is responsible for what it trains and orders its workers to do.

By the way, GPW, great job. This is being linked all over the blogosphere. Aside from doing the obvious work of exposing Obama’s corruption and support of voter fraud, you’re also making a strong argument that gay people are not all hopeless shills for the Democrat Voter Fraud Party.

The Bay County (Florida) Supervisor of Elections warned today against voter scams being perpetrated by ACORN. He had received a complaint from a man whose parents were recently registered to vote which is well and good, except they passed away 19 years ago.

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After Bush put in his AG, the whole justice dept was focused on prosecuting voter fraud.
AND THEY FOUND NOTHING WORTH PROSECUTING.
They tried and tried but all they found is what repubs specialize in:

Innuendo? GOP? Gillie, please make your accusations against the local news organizations reporting these stories. And please show me any inaccurate information in any of the links provided above. Thanks.

If someone give a false registration form to ACORN, the only way ACORN can violates the law is if they DO NOT SUBMIT IT.

Right. According to gillie’s silly logic, if a company’s workers release toxic chemicals into the environment, the company can claim that it had nothing to do with it because it was only its workers — and that, as long as the company reports it, it cannot be punished or held criminally liable.

ACORN is a criminally-negligent organization engaging in rampant voter fraud, with the full encouragement and support of the Barack Obama campaign. Like V the K noted, gillie is completely unable to admit that what ACORN is doing is wrong and that fraudulent voting and voter registration is a Federal crime.

It’s just part of the ongoing double-standard. Duke Cunningham goes to prison, Charlie Rangel and Cold Cash Jefferson …. nothing. Mark Foley is tossed out on his ass, Tim Mahoney…. nothing. Sarah Palin is a “liar” because even though she put the executive jet on eBay, she actually sold it through a broker. But Joe Biden can claim his helicopter was forced down in terrorist country (among other whoppers)… nothing.

It’s disgusting and all involved should be prosecuted fully. It also points out the absolute insanity of having different methods of voting in different states and the appalling shape of state’s computer systems. No one should be allowed to vote without a state issued picture id, and I know it’s the left that fights this as well as pushing for last minute registering. In CT if a voter leaves town their name’s cannot be removed from the list unless the town is notified they have registered somewhere else. But, the new towns aren’t obligated to inform the old one and it’s more confusing if it’s another state. A truly functioning registering process would be able to catch a duplicate social security # being entered.

It seems that the Dems would be very stupid to be behind something like this especially considering how much of a problem it’s been in the last to Pres elections. It certainly does set up the right for perfect whining points if the election should go against them. Of course, anyone who claims that the Repubs haven’t pulled the same crap in one way or another is just a liar.

[...] amazing place. Where else would you find a politically conservative gay activist who puts together a convenient list of news items regarding the electoral fraud being perpetrated by an organization associated with a socialist Presidential [...]

I wish the RNC would quickly produce a poliAd that is shot in B&W on a Casablanca-styled set, with look-a-likes of Bogie, Bergman, Henreid and Claude Rains as Capt Renault –with a few neatly dressed Nazi types for background (a couple of them could look like Chris Matthews and Herr Keith Olbermann)– and an “ACORN 4 Obama” banner in the background…

“Voter fraud? Voter fraud organized out of Chicago? I am shocked!”

Here in Michigan, the State AG just announced that an ACORN worker was charged with 6 counts of felony forgery… but here’s the clicker: the ACORN employee had been convicted in the past of drunken driving and drug offenses and was in jail on a parole violation charge when the alleged forgeries were found.

Unfortunately for our AG, who use to partner with ACORN on foreclosure forums around the state, it’ll be all about window dressings and little about meaningful prosecution. (The AG wants to be Gov in 2010)

[...] abiding shame), several blogs have done some great work on this topic. Both Gateway Pundit and the Gay Patriot have been covering this story for a while, and each has compiled information about ACORN and voter [...]

On top of all the fraudulent registrations ACORN has submitted in Michigan, the ACLU went to to a (Democrat) Federal judge in Detroit and got an injunction against the State for daring to disqualify “registrants” whose votor cards were returned by the Post Office as undeliverable. This is the sort of stuff Chavez used to wrest control of Venezuela from the people. You heard it here first.

[...] story after story (all from far-flung local newspapers — no national coverage here!) of massive voter fraud by ACORN. This is the taxpayer-funded, “non-partisan” organization to which the Obama campaign [...]

Voters whose names do not appear in the books are entitled to use paper provisional ballots. The provisional ballots are counted after officials verify the voters are registered.

Voters can also go to a judge on duty in each county on Election Day to ask for an order that would allow them vote on a machine. Lawyers from the state, political parties and the American Civil Liberties Union will be on hand to help resolve disputes over whether people are registered.

In many counties, some new voters’ forms will not be processed in time to get them in the main books, but they will be included in supplemental listings. County officials will be able to confirm they are registered through these listings and allow them to vote in the booth.

Itâ€™s fun to watch as Republicans lay the groundwork for their post-trouncing rationalizations. Obama won becasue of election fraud. Uh huh. And is polling fraud to blame for his double digit national lead?

Comment by Jim â€” October 14, 2008 @ 2:54 pm – October 14, 2008

Nah, that fraud is by lefty pollsters and reporters; you know, the kind who had Kerry winning in all the exit polls in hopes of convincing Republicans who hadn’t voted that it would be futile to do so.

I am wondering if you covered voter fraud so vigilantly back in 2000 when the election was stolen in Florida.

I agree with you: ACORN is clearly guilty of voter registration fraud and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Let’s, however, not forget that Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State, prevented tens of thousands of legal voters from voting in that presidential election.

This is much worse than the voter fraud that exists by ACORN. It would be an unlikely scenario that this organization will go and vote illegally tens of thousands of times using false names. I assume the fraud is being committed more to make profits — I think the company earns money for each person it registers.

Don’t you just love how people like Joe use their leftist fantasies about the 2000 election being “stolen” as an excuse for their aiding and abetting massive amounts of registration and voter fraud in this one?

Prediction: McCain will lose by 1 electoral vote when Nevada goes to Obama by 7 votes. Later, when it’s much too late, the Dallas Cowboys will reveal how they slipped into Las Vegas and stole the election.

I love you and am right on board with your belief that ACORN’s shenanigans are endemic, systematic, focused and likely done with the complicity of Democrat party officials. However, the story you reference as 3,700 registered Columbus voters list vacant lots as home doesn’t really say that. Living in Memphis, I am well aware of the common phenomena of people listing parking lots, parents’ homes or even grave yards on their voter registration as residence, but the article to which you linked addressed folks who had properly listed their address at time of registration and were subsequently removed due to foreclosure. The article does address 3700 of these addresses as now being “vacant,” but not “vacant lots.” I tend to believe that that the potential effects of foreclosure on the voting public is being exagerated, since for these voters there are alternative ways to verify their registration (SSN and/or DL#).

Bottom line: the linked article does not say what you purport and does not bolster your argument. I’m on your side, but also believe in fair representation.

Remember if Obama wins none of these people will be investigated. The FBI inquiry of Acorn will stop and we can be sure that in 2012 it’s likely that in most states with a democratic Secretary of State no republican will meet the registration requirement for candidacy in the presidential election.
I begin to feel the way many people in Germany must have felt in the late 1920s early 1930s.

[...] top of ACORN’s (the organization Obama worked for as a “community organizer”) extensive vote fraud on Obama’s behalf, now a new incident of vote fraud has emerged in which a mentally handicapped man was forced to [...]

[...] Here’s a pretty good summary of this phenomenon for 2008. The headlines are daunting, but if you dig into just about any of them, you find that they’re not nearly as sinister as they’re made to sound. In most cases, they reflect the push and pull between over-registering (i.e., registering people who might not be eligible to make sure we catch everyone who is eligible) and registration verification (i.e., requiring registrations with known errors to be corrected before allowing the voter to vote). [...]

[...] course, ACORN claims no involvement.Â All of these phony registrations popping up nationwide under their name are spontaneous acts of random unrelated workers. “This is one bad apple,” [ACORN’s [...]